Dada and Surrealism - Get as PowerPoint

DADA
1915 -1922
• French for Hobbyhorse
• Declared purpose was to
ridicule and protest the
established values of society
in response to the destruction
from WW1
• Satire – Humor with a political
message
• Anti Art
• Readymades
• Ubsurdity Marcel Duchamp
Fountain
Surrealism
“As beautiful as the chance encounter of an umbrella
and a sewing machine on a dissecting table.”
- Andre Breton
Surrealism
• Began in Paris France, 1924 and still continues to influence modern art
• A group of artists and writers led by the poet Andre Breton
• Influenced by the work of Sigmund Freud and the Dada movement
• Emphasizes fantasy, imagination, and the unconscious mind (dreams)
• Utilizes juxtaposition (joining images together in impossible combinations)
to create bizarre and dreamlike imagery.
Other Surreal Techniques
1. JUXTAPOSITION. Juxtaposition. Juxtaposition
2. DISLOCATION. Place an object in an environment where
it would normally not exist.
3. Change an objects SIZE or SCALE
4. LEVITATION. Make objects float or fly that normally would not.
5. TRANSFORMATION. Convert, Metamorphose, Mutate.
6. REPETITION. Repeat lines, shapes, textures, objects, etc.
Georges De Chirico
• Greek / Italian
• Precursor to Surrealism
• Poetic cityscapes
• Trains, shadows and
classical architecture
• Enigmatic
Love Song
The Conquest of
the Philospher
Salvador Dali
• Spanish
• Most well known and eccentric
Surrealist
• Paranoic critical method
• Hidden forms, melting clocks,
dream like landscapes
• Hand painted dream photographs
“Every morning when I wake up, I experience the joy – the joy of being
Salvador Dali - and I ask myself in rapture, “What wonderful things this
Salvador Dali is going to accomplish today?”
“I do not take drugs, I am drugs.”
Persistence of Memory
Sleep
Metamorphosis of Narcissus
Rene Magritte
• “I want to make familiar
objects scream out loud.”
• Belgium
• Wallpaper designer and
commercial artist
• “Magic Realism”
• Quiet
• Visual Puzzles
Time
Transfixed
The Son of Man
“My painting is visible
images which conceal
nothing; they evoke
mystery and, indeed,
when one sees one of
my pictures, one asks
oneself this simple
question, 'What does
that mean?'. It does
not mean anything,
because mystery
means nothing either,
it is unknowable.”
Golconda
Castle in
Pyrennes
Presence of
the Mind
High Society
Yves Tanguy
• French sea merchant
• Lunar landscapes and
seascapes
• Amorphous – having no
recognizable shape.
Through Birds, Through Fire and Not Through Glass